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OneTel cuts off BT broadband

Customers moved onto Easynet platform

OneTel has ditched
BT and turned to
Easynet to supply its broadband in a move
that could signal a larger market shift away from the UK's former incumbent
telco.

The three year deal will see OneTel transfer its customer base to Easynet's
broadband network. Easynet currently offers speeds of up to 8MBps and is
trialling services at speeds as high as 24MBps.

"The partnership with Easynet will allow us to deploy next generation
broadband services and benefit from Local Loop Unbundling economics," said Ian
El-Mokadem, managing director at Onetel

Easynet is able to offer broadband services because BT, which owns the
exchanges the data flows through, was forced to let other telecommunications
firms install their equipment in its exchanges – a process referred to as Local
Loop Unbundling (LLU). So far Easynet claims to have 90 per cent of LLU
broadband lines in the UK, covering 70 per cent of the country.

"Onetel says it chose Easynet for a combination of its competitive pricing
and its portfolio of bandwidth services, which is wider than BT's," said Michael
Philpott, analyst at Ovum.

"The wholesale service is approximately 30 per cent cheaper than BT, and
Easynet already offers DSL up to 8Mbps, with a trial of 24Mbps also under way.
Onetel is intending to migrate existing broadband customers in the areas where
Easynet has a LLU footprint, thereby saving on costs."